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Sunday, January 2, 2011

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Some sad news in the feminist world. Jayaben Desai (pictured above), a prominent activist and feminist who is originally from India, died just before Christmas. You can read about this amazing woman in articles from The Guardian and The Hindu.

In addition, Geraldine Doyle, the inspiration behind the iconic World War II "Rosie the Riveter" image, died. You can read more about her story and the story of the image at Lansing State Journal and New York Times. The Jawa Report has photos of Doyle, including the one at right.

In other news:Note:Some of these links will be a couple weeks old now, since I didn't do a Sunday reading column last week. But news is news, and I'm going to include them anyway!

News.com.au: "All internet porn will be blocked to protect children, under UK government plan."

Global Post: "India: crackdown on sex-selective abortions: The government has proposed a cash-incentive plan to encourage families to have girls."

AOL News: "Can Corporations Help Stem Violence Against Women?" I thought this was an interesting idea.

MPR: "Top Secret Rosies," about a documentary that sounds really good. From the article: "In today's world we think of a computer as a thing, but back in World War II a computer was a person, and in many cases it was a woman."

After Ellen: "Five female-fronted films to look forward to in 2011." Hmm.

1 comment:

Here's hoping that whatever agenda the Texas billboards are out to achieve will get shot down just like here in Atlanta, where the billboards were part of an overall ploy to push through legislation that could criminalize both black women seeking abortions and their doctors.

This is beyond disgusting, all around. It's racist in assuming that black women are too dumb to know when they're getting an abortion, it's racist in assuming that race in the motive for black women seeking abortions in the first place, and it trivializes and undermines the intelligence and autonomy of women as a whole. I mistakenly stumbled upon the comments section and, though I didn't take more than 2 or 3 seconds to read what was written there, what I DID manage to see made me want to punch a wall. I'm completely disgusted and infuriated right now.

And I know this has all been said loads upon loads of times, but it never stops being infuriating, this shit here. [/rant]

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